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Letters Patent 69,210, dated Sepia/now 24:, 1857.

r IMPROVED BURNING-FLUID.

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TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Be it known that I, 5 G. HES'JER, of the city of Raleigh, Wake county, State of North Soroline, have invented a new and useful improvement in Burning-Fluid for illuminating purposes, which I designate es Estrella, Fluid. The following is a full desoription thereof. 4

As the base of this improved bnrningfluicl, I take the naphtha of ooaloil. The whole of the ingredients used, and proportions of the some, are as follows: Forty gallons naphtha, ten ounces sweet spirits of nitro, one and three-quarters pound common potash, six ounces gum oninphor, six and thl'eeqlmrter ounces alum, two and three-quarter pounds common snlb, four ounces chloride of lime, three and 1-. quarter ounce oil sosso'lrns, Loree ounces sulphur, two ounces charcoal.

I v The mode of manufacturing this new and improved burning-fluid is as follows: Open the barrel oi nap'n in a. secure place, by taking out; the bong. Put in all the other ingredients except the oil of sassofrns. .et it stand twenty-four hours. Then put in the oil of Sassafras, and let it stand twenty-four hours longer, with the bung out, shaking in frequently. At the expiro-vion of the forty-eight hours, as described above, the

naphtha. will have gone through a chemical change, to 3119 effect Eliot it will then produce light as soft us a,

candle and as bright as gas, without smoking or leaving an unpleasant odor.

This can he used in lamps of the lowest cost. What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, iS-- The improved burning-fluid, prepared of the materials subsmntially as herein described.

J. G. HESTER,

Wihnesses:

JAMns H. nns'rnn,

CHRISTIAN KAUFMAN. 

